A Cloud Hopping Guide for the Modern Enterprise
Everyone has stayed in a standard hotel room - they all have similar
qualities, with similar prices and amenities. You can expect a good night's
sleep, HBO movies on the TV, and a free muffin in the morning. While I may
be taking a few liberties with this analogy, I'd argue - the cloud is
equivalent to the standard hotel room.
There's nothing wrong with plain, run-of-the-mill accommodations, but you'd
be amazed to find Tim Cook shacking up at the Holiday Inn, and he definitely
wouldn't sign a contract requiring him to stay every time he lands in New
York.
The same goes for enterprises and how they interact with clouds. Sure, they
can benefit from the use of a single cloud provider, but why sign a year
agreement with so many options at their disposal? An enterprise has ample
amounts of data to store, and security requ... (more)

It's an oft-cited FEMA statistic that 40 percent of small businesses never
reopen after a disaster. Almost certainly contributing to this eye-popping
failure rate is the fact that an estimated 74 percent of small to mid-sized
businesses (SMBs) lack a disaster recovery plan, while 84 percent haven't
bothered to obtain disaster insurance.
On an annual basis, flooding ranks as the most common and costly type of
natural disaster in America. This hurricane season alone is expected to boast
10 named tropical storms and five hurricanes. Those SMBs that don't want
their data to wash awa... (more)